✓ 20 MINUTES. ( renjun )

TWELVE.

The two had been talking for a while now, completely putting aside the fact that they were just side-eyeing each other beforehand.

"Hey! I didn't know our friend groups overlapped either!" Kara exclaimed, Renjun stomping his feet from laughing so much as silence begins to overcome the two of them as their laughter drowns out.

A minute of comfortable silence goes by. Both Kara and Renjun bearing bright smiles on their faces.

"Y'know, Renjun..." Kara starts, the male humming in reply as he looks at her. "I never answered your question"

"What question?" he asks, eyebrows furrowing as he tries to recall.

"When you asked if you could be my boyfriend," she answers, looking down onto her lap as a soft smile forms on Renjun's lips.

"I meant it when I said 'not now'," she starts.

"Maybe you didn't think you'd have to wait this long but it was never the right time last year. Life was crazy... you know, more than it already was"

Renjun hums, lightly nodding in understanding.

"So, when is the right time?"

"Now," Kara answers, Renjun unconsciously sucking in his breath as his eyes go wide.

"Not now now," Kara says again, to which Renjun's expression drops.

"But give it a week"

"And what if you say the exact same thing you said a year ago?" Renjun asks, slightly doubtful that this will end well.

"Oh, I won't," Kara chuckles, looking at him with a reassuring smile.

"I'm ready to say 'yes'. I just need to make sure I still love you the same or if this is just my guilt eating me up from inside," she explains, Renjun not focusing on the rest of her words as four certain ones stood out to him.

"You love me?" he asks, Kara nodding along.

"Who wouldn't?"

"Donghyuck."

"Try again."

The two fall into laughter once more, the sounds of the carnival getting louder as they near the end of their ferris wheel ride.

"So," Renjun starts, Kara looking back at him with a smile.

"Are we cool now?" he asks, Kara pursing her lips as she shakes her head.

"Definitely not. No. I definitely didn't just confess for us to not be cool anymore " she sarcastically answers, the two chuckling as the ride stops.

Their safety bar goes up as they hop out of the car, Renjun taking Kara's hand to help her as she lands on the ground.

"So, first date after being cool again?" Renjun asks, Kara giving him a look as they both exit out of the gate heading to the ferris wheel.

"We're on a date now are we?" she asks him teasingly, the male looking down as a smile surfaces on his lips.

"Cotton candy?" he asks her, them looking at each other as Kara abruptly stops walking, Renjun stopping too once he notices.

"What?" he asks, noticing the hurt expressed in her face that would've immediately convinced him she was actually hurt. Except looking into her eyes, they told different. They held mischief underneath them as he scoffs at her act 

"I don't like cotton candy. Didn't i tell you that?" she replies, intentionally cracking her voice as he chuckles.

"I'm kidding. Why do you think we're walking completely opposite the cotton candy stand?"

With this, Kara looks around, noticing that they were indeed walking as far away from the stand as possible.

"Then where are we going, sir?" she asks him, noticing his free hand in front of her as she takes his hand in hers.

Surprised with the interaction, Renjun looks at their intertwined hands before looking back at Kara who seemed to think nothing of it.

"What do you want?" he asks, the female looking around as she spots the warm food stand nearby.

"Corn dogs, please. It's too cold for anything else," Kara answers, Renjun nodding along as they both start to walk hand in hand towards the said stand.

"Anything else?" he asks her, Kara shaking her head.

"Just you," she answers, a cheeky smile reaching her face as Renjun looks away as a shy smile enters his.

"I always thought I was bolder for confessing first," he says, looking back at the girl who gave him a look.

"Not anymore," she answers as the two chuckle along and enjoy the rest of the night and their lives spent together, never once forgetting the 20 minutes they spent together that rekindled the relationship that would last them forever.

fin.